Offshore staff
PARIS -- Bureau Veritas has agreed with COPPE/UFRJ, the Ocean Engineering department of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro to form a joint development center for deepwater technology.
Pierre Besse, VP Research and Development for Bureau Veritas in Paris said: “We will initially have four people working full time on the Rio university development group, so we can marry up the modeling strengths and structure experience of Bureau Veritas with the academic and practical expertise in the offshore sector in Brazil.
“We expect to see real useable tools and new software and technical developments to help get the next generation of floaters and deepwater subsea systems onstream quickly and safely. The Ocean Basin at COPPE/UFRJ is equipped with sophisticated multi-directional wave generators and the deepest model basin in the world and we can use those to develop safe and clean technologies to promote deepwater offshore energy exploitation.
“The projects will be mainly linked to the development of technology for the exploration and production of the recently discovered pre-salt fields in ultra-deep waters in the offshore Santos basin in Brazil.”
According to Segen Farid Stefen, director of Technology and Innovation at COPPE/UFRJ, “The first development project is already under way, tackling some important aspects in the evaluation of dynamic positioning systems for oil shuttle tankers, in connection with off-loading operations offshore.”
Bureau Veritas works with other academic institutes in the Far East, Australia, and Russia. With Harbin Engineering University in China, Besse pointed out, “we have produced a fully coupled analysis of deepwater floating systems, which helps develop TLP/Spars/FLNG projects by delivering the latest in hydrodynamic modeling.”
02/16/2011
